Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. He is the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship, both from the Academy of American Poets. He has received fellowships and residencies from the Sundance Institute, the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, the Arizona Poetry Center, and CantoMundo. From 2016-2018, he edited The Wanderer and Puerto Rico en mi corazón, a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets. He is also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. His fourth book, lo terciario/the tertiary, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. His fifth book, while they sleep (under the bed is another country), was published by Birds, LLC in 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Roque loves and lives for Puerto Rico, Philadelphia, and a world free of white supremacy.